'Force HDR' option is coming to the Windows 10 Mobile Camera

If you've been irritated that you can't control when the official Windows 10 Mobile Camera app uses HDR (high-dynamic-range) for photos, some good news is headed your way. Microsoft imaging head Juha Alakarhu says the Camera app will soon get a "Force HDR" option, giving you the control you desire.

After more than a few complaints around these parts of how Rich Capture works on the Lumia 950 and 950 XL, Microsoft's (ex-Nokia) imaging chief, Juha Alakarhu, has been in touch to let us know that 'Force HDR is coming' soon to Windows 10 Mobile's official Camera application, though he couldn't promise 'any dates yet'.

High-dynamic-range imaging is a technique that combines multiple images taken at a range of exposure levels in order to create a higher-quality, richer photo. Currently, the Windows 10 camera app automatically switches HDR on or off. There's no timeline yet for the introduction of this feature, but it's good to know it's on the way.

Should have done this **** years ago, is it that ******* hard to change the names from LUMIA apps to MICROSOFT. Their stupid logic is to throw out the stake and eat the burned spoil stepped on hamburger!!!

Lumia 920- first: I have w8.1phone and sometimes during video recording the video is lagging sometimes just recording sound for 5 seconds. I don't know how to fix it. Hard reset - I did it. ..... Second: How do make night mode or night pics with w10phone on 920?

.63. The latest update. Still having problems but it is becoming a minor inconvenience now. But the camera software had gotten noticeably better in this latest few updates of both the OS and camera app

Oh yea! .63 was a major step forward, more so t han the other incremental updates since the release. No reason to avoid it. One more cleanup build and I would feel comfortable recommending people get a phone with W10 or upgrade from 8.1. I suppose MSFT feels that way too since they seem just about ready to release W10 for update on existing phones. I support the idea. It's not perfect, but it's not embarassing anymore

They should start by correcting the color algorithm...it's such a shame. When you're going to take a pic, in your display it looks just perfect...when you take the pic, the colors become awful. It turns out with a blue/green override... With android or ios , you can just tap your screen and the pic looks perfect.... Please fix it asap!!!!!
Horrible color in windows camera!!!!!

Guys I know this is off topic but I can't download **** from the windows store I tried downloading world of tanks blitz and I keep getting this error 0x8020002B also tried download asphalt 8 no luck in that either

Depends on the country and carrier. From the stories I've seen on Windows Central and elsewhere, .29 is what is being rolled out. I really hope the need to do a hard reset and not load a WP8.x-created backup doesn't drive people away from Windows Mobile.

Great stuff! This has been over if my major issues with the 950 camera. I had HDR on my 735 with W10 but my 950 thinks it's smarter than me, lol. Can only get rich capture with the flash on, which defeats the point!

Atm theere are to many problems with the phones with update 29. Scrolling true pictures on sd card i get stottering after some time en they load sometimes slow to,
Some videos are blurry not always, and some moore problems its abouth time they realease a better update that solve theese problems and stop slacking with updating and fixing things before ppl get tired of it and get other phones

Get a faster SD card (UHS-I are the fastest supported speeds), make sure you're on the latest firmware update which improved SD card performance, and then upgrade to build .63. I know you may not want to put insider preview on your new phone out of principle of you being a consumer. I was like that at first. However, Lumia 950/XL are for the fans and all Lumia 950 owners are early adopters and therefore somewhat the "testers" of Windows 10 mobile. So you might as well accept the fact that this is not your standard consumer smartphone and get the best version of the OS available for your device. I did not put 0.63 on my 950 until about 4-5 days after it was available when there's been no reported additional issues with it.

Hi there! Is there a big change in using 950xl with version .29 to .63? Ive been wanting to get into insider but some comments scares me saying its not stable enough and cause many trouble to reguar user. If i do that shld u advise me to back up my fone first? Thanks

Still getting random restarts on my ICON while using Camera. It gives me the low battery warning and then restarts. That, coupled with the unresponsive touch screen upon reboot, forcing me to reboot several times, is super annoying.

W10M is working great on my 1520, except for an occasional camera freeze right after taking a photo. Happens probably every 20 shots or so. Only thing that fixes it is a reboot and the last shot is lost.

Do you take the 20 pictures in quick succession? That could be happening due to the fact that the post processing of images keeps happening in the background while you take newer pictures, overloading the phone. I would suggest slowing down, taking fewer shots back to back.

Currently running the latest build of W10M and my phone gets hot at random, battery life is very bad, camera freezes on trying to save a shot and my flashlight has stopped working. Its very sad that W10M is yet to be released and you wonder how Microsoft think highly of the mobile. I'm really disappointed. Sincerely Lumia 930 user

It's ready. 1511 (.29) is what was on my production/retail 950 and 950XL. It was ready enough for them. If your carrier actually makes the effort to tweak for their builds for their models, there may be some minor improvements there, but I hardly think that is likely. Those carriers that support it will do no more than test it and allow MS to push it. It'll be the same bits that is on the models it comes on out of the box.

What's the mini-movie feature called that seems to kick in semi-randomly? It gives photos that Harry Potter effect. Photo color is great during the animation, but horrible after the animation is done. It's on my wife's L640, but not on my L925.

Sad, right? MS just threw away everything good that the Nokia and Zune teams did.
I've tried the camera on the Nexus 5x and tbh, it blew my 928 out of the water. No need to mess with settings, just point and shoot.

That's what its like on the 950 XL, point and shoot and you get fantastic photographs. No need to mess with the settings, which to be honest are all alien to me. I just get shít results if I start messing with them.

So what is the use of the Rich Capture button? I didn't get it. My main complain is that when I active Rich Capture in most of times the Windows Camera apps saves 1025x768 and without the option to edit Rich Capture. I lost many pictures because of that.

I have experienced that as well, randomly. The photo cannot be pinched to zoom. And what's up with the images shown in a small centered view, and you have to double tap, to enlarge? Even then, it enlarges, but doesn't fill the screen. You have to pinch/zoom, to fill the screen (when that works). Infuriating, at times.

Hi! Its me again lol! Ive been wanting to get into d insider to get d latest update since ive been stuck to d .29 build . But am hearing some mixed reviews saying d insider build is buggy still and the scary part is it might cause damage in d phone and render my warranty void. How true is that in ur experience?thanks for d reply

Is someone going to ask this on every article? I'm pretty sure they'll write about it when you can upgrade to Win10m. The constant on repeat, broken record isn't going to inspire a "oh yeah, glad you asked. We meant to tell you that's ready now too" response.